callback vs recall

callback

noun
  • A product recall because of a defect or safety concern. 

  • A joke which references an earlier joke in the same routine. 

  • A follow-up audition in casting. 

  • The return of a situation to a previous position or state. 

  • A function pointer passed as an argument to another function. 

  • A return telephone or radio call; especially one made automatically to authenticate a logon to a computer network. 

  • A form of audience participation in which the audience shout lines in response to the dialog of a film. 

recall

noun
  • Request of the return of a faulty product. 

  • Memory; the ability to remember. 

  • The fraction of (all) relevant material that is returned by a search. 

  • The right or procedure by which the decision of a court may be directly reversed or annulled by popular vote, as was advocated, in 1912, in the platform of the Progressive Party for certain cases involving the police power of the state. 

  • The right or procedure by which a public official may be removed from office before the end of their term of office, by a vote of the people to be taken on the filing of a petition signed by a required number or percentage of qualified voters. 

verb
  • To bring back (someone) to or from a particular mental or physical state, activity etc. 

  • To remove an elected official through a petition and direct vote. 

  • To call back, bring back or summon (someone) to a specific place, station etc. 

  • To call back (a situation, event etc.) to one's mind; to remember, recollect. 

  • To call again, to call another time. 

  • To request or order the return of (a faulty product). 

  • To withdraw, retract (one's words etc.); to revoke (an order). 

How often have the words callback and recall occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )